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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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“A lady put American Robin nestlings in a small Tupperware container and put the lid on,” said Jodi Swenson in Massachusetts. And another one,” she added, “in a tampon box.” “A Big Brown Bat in a large glass terrarium,” said Marlene Ehresman in Iowa, “because the people wanted to make sure it wouldn’t escape.”

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

10,000 Birds

But in the fall (with plumage as in the photo on the left, above) they take an entirely different, and heroic, route, first to Massachusetts and then, after a rest, south over the Atlantic Ocean. The harshest law of all, one more draconian than any human legislature could enact, is the law of unintended consequences.

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